Cal State Fullerton voice: When the stars aligned for a re-entry student

By Derek White
The stars aligned for me Aug. 17 when gravitational wave observatories here on Earth detected the ripples in spacetime that traveled at the speed of light to our planet from their source a galaxy away.
Those ripples were caused by two neutron stars that had reached the last legs of their slowly collapsing orbit, roughly 120 million years ago, eventually colliding into one another in an event that literally sent out shock waves through time and space.
Derek White —